The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to let President Trump refire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, after a divided federal appeals court panel allowed her to remain in her post.

The Justice Department filed an emergency application at the high court Monday asking the justices to pause the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's decision blocking Trump's termination of Shira Perlmutter as the case proceeds.

"This application involves another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s power to remove executive officers — here, the Register of Copyrights," Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the administration's request.

Perlmutter was

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